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by plesn 18y ago
Thanks for the compliment, but [citation needed]...
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by plesn 18y ago
French was an 'imperialistic' language as well, until not so long ago; France had a strong economic and diplomatic influence. You had good conferences in several domains in French. It's tough to loose this kind of influence, and I think the
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by plesn 18y ago
> You know what the "best" language book I've read is? K&R I also loved K&R. I like concise and precise books about languages. For me the fun part is the ability to make you "feel" the language by practice. I like when I can do
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by plesn 18y ago
I like your comparison! But justice should protect us, while everything here has no bound checks... Instead of having it in a high level language, we have some old cobol (it works!) here and we must pay specialists for $$ to decipher it...
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by plesn 18y ago
Exactly. Even if their current intent is good, they are stating something that can potentially be evil for their customers, and only that counts for lawyers. The argument is: imagine they have financial difficulties and that Dogbert buys
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by plesn 18y ago
I don't really know if it massively happening, but less and less people use photo-sharing sites. It's not the quality of photos that count or the availability of Flickr plugins etc, it's 1) the fact that you can do it in Facebook now, so i
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by plesn 18y ago
It's true I would like to live in a world which would care about people rights and privacy before copyrighted content; I know I'm pretty idealistic. But in this case it seems to me they are fighting evil with a lot bigger evil.
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by plesn 18y ago
No, the solution is to open up Facebook! Interoperability is good for users!
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by plesn 18y ago
I would like to add that to break this network effect, you have to add a LOT more. In my opinion for example, Facebook is starting to break the MSN monopoly using it's own, as people are using it to chat.
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by plesn 18y ago
What you're pointing here, is that even a "non-evil" company can nearly be forced by the sake of self-protection and simplicity to have abusive clauses. Maybe this shows the need of active regulation and arbitration in the domain. In France
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by plesn 18y ago
You can change of social network (it's not a Microsoft-like monopoly), but as everybody's in it you have to be in it by pure network effect. In other markets like Brazil, everybody is on Orkut, so no real choice either, you have to be on
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by plesn 18y ago
I totally agree. But that's called a situation of monopoly. Shouldn't we be able to have inpact on laws that would protect us, and enforce more transparency and more openned up interfaces?
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by plesn 18y ago
A non-evil social network would have to be distributed and based on open protocols: you could be @facebook.com but could interact with people on other networks so that users would have choice. They could even have their own server. The net
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by plesn 18y ago
It's seems great for developpers. The minus part of generated code and all those frameworks is of course that it doesn't go in the direction of "view source" readability. Is css becoming an "assembly" for style inside browsers?
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by plesn 18y ago
I agree that including figures is a strong part of LaTeX, I believe, as you have good control over it. What takes times, is drawing a diagram to illustrate something. Resorting to external tools and inserting is OK, but you often don't
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by plesn 18y ago
LaTeX makes it easy to make something clean out of a bunch of text. But when graphics enter, I'm easily stuck loosing a lot of time. For now, i tend to use tikz and will learn Inkscape, after bad experiences with dia, metapost, etc. Sure